At time of writing, Legends
of Tomorrow has managed to clear its first major hurdle by completing its
2-part pilot in spectacular fashion.
The team is assembled, the characters are fun and engaging, and the
fight scenes spectacular, and the stakes have never been higher within the
realm of the CW. Now that the
opening salvo has been fired Legends of
Tomorrow is settling in for the long haul, planning a full season’s worth
of time travel throughout the crazy corners of DC’s past and introducing even
more weird heroes of the DC universe.
This has always been CW’s greatest strength, a complete
embrace of the weirdest and most obscure elements of DC continuity without a
hint of irony or self-consciousness over the strangeness of the characters
they’re adapting. That incredible
confidence of adaptation seems to be coming to a head now as CW announces 5 new
characters to appear in Legends of
Tomorrow, some logical like Jonah Hex or Sergeant Rock while other likes
Hourman the third and Ma Hunkle are as strange a choice as comic book
adaptations are allowed to make nowadays.
